Leadership for peace: united in respect of the…

Presidency: His Excellency Robert Golob, Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia

 A statement by the President on behalf of the Council (S/PRST/2024/5) was adopted.

 Briefer: His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

 Statement: Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President, International Committee of the Red Cross

 Briefer: Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Member of The Elders and former President of the Republic of Liberia

 Statement: His Excellency Robert Golob, Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia

 Statement: Her Excellency Viola Amherd, President, Swiss Confederation

 Statement: His Excellency Robert Abela, Prime Minister, Republic of Malta

 Statement: His Excellency Keir Starmer, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 Statement: His Excellency Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister for Foreign Affairs, China

 Statement: Her Excellency Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States of America and Member of President Biden's Cabinet, United States of America

 Statement: His Excellency Ahmed Attaf, Minister for Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

 Statement: His Excellency Hugh Hilton Todd, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana

 Statement: His Excellency Cho Tae-yul, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea

 Statement: His Excellency Musa Timothy Kabba, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sierra Leone

 Statement: His Excellency Manuel José Gonçalves, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mozambique

 Statement: His Excellency Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

 Statement: His Excellency Akahori Takeshi, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan

 Statement: His Excellency Jaime Barberis, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ecuador

 Statement: Russian Federation

 Further statements: United States of America, Russian Federation

 The meeting was suspended.

 The meeting was resumed.

 Statement: His Excellency Andrzej Duda, President, Republic of Poland

 Statement: His Excellency Charles Michel, President of the European Council, European Union

 Statement: His Excellency José Raúl Mulino Quintero, President, Republic of Panama

 Statement: His Excellency Petr Pavel, President, Czech Republic

 Statement: His Excellency Mohamed Muizzu, President, Republic of Maldives

 Statement: His Excellency Edgars Rinkēvičs, President, Republic of Latvia

 Statement: His Excellency Ahmed Aboulgheit, Secretary General, League of Arab States (LAS)

 Statement: His Excellency Denis Bećirović, Chairman of the Presidency, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 Statement: His Excellency José Maria Pereira Neves, President, Republic of Cabo Verde

 Statement: His Excellency Alexander Stubb, President, Republic of Finland (on behalf of Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden))

 Statement: His Excellency Daniel Risch, Prime Minister, Principality of Liechtenstein

 Statement: His Excellency Nasser Bourita, Minister for Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Morocco

 Statement: Her Excellency Arzu Rana Deuba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nepal

 Statement: His Excellency Peter Pellegrini, President, Slovak Republic

 Statement: His Excellency Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister, Georgia

 Statement: His Excellency Aidroos Qassim Abdulaziz Al-Zoubidi, Vice-President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Yemen

 Statement: His Excellency Péter Szijjártó, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary

 Statement: His Excellency Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, New Zealand

 Statement: Her Excellency J. Uduch Sengebau Senior, Vice-President and Minister of Justice, Republic of Palau

 Statement: His Excellency Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Spain

 Statement: His Excellency Luís Montenegro, Prime Minister, Portuguese Republic

 Statement: His Excellency General Jeje Odongo Abubakhar, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uganda (on behalf of Non-Aligned Movement)

 Statement: His Excellency Ratu Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere, President, Republic of Fiji

 Statement: His Excellency Filip Ivanović, Deputy Prime Minister, Montenegro

 Statement: His Excellency Joel Hernández García, Vice-Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Mexico

 Statement: His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia

 Statement: His Excellency Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

 Statement: His Excellency Alar Karis, President, Republic of Estonia (on behalf of Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania))

 Statement: His Excellency Gregor Kössler, Vice-Minister for European and International Affairs, Austria

 Statement: His Excellency Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister, Republic of Armenia

 Statement: His Excellency Ivan Kondov, Caretaker Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria

 Statement: Her Excellency Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Indonesia

 Statement: His Excellency M Touhid Hossain, Adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Interim Government, Bangladesh

 Statement: His Excellency Caspar C.J. Veldkamp, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands

 Statement: His Excellency Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran

 Statement: His Excellency Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Ireland

 Statement: His Excellency Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore

 Statement: His Excellency Mohamad Hasan, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Malaysia

 Statement: His Excellency Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brazil

 Statement: Her Excellency Theodora Gentzis, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgium

 The meeting was suspended.

 The meeting was resumed.

 Statement: Her Excellency Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, President, Republic of North Macedonia

 Statement: His Excellency Gordon Grlić-Radman, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia

 Statement: His Excellency Enrique Austria Manalo, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Philippines

 Statement: His Excellency Riccardo Paternò di Montecupo, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Order of Malta

 Statement: His Excellency Mohamed Ali Nafti, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Tunisia

 Statement: His Excellency Albert Shingiro, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Burundi

 Statement: His Excellency Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Timor-Leste

 Statement: His Excellency Tanmaya Lal, Secretary, Ministry for External Affairs, India

 Statement: Her Excellency Luminita-Teodora Odobescu, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Romania

 Statement: Her Excellency Ayşe Berris Ekinci, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Türkiye

 Statement: His Excellency Ronald Ozzy Lamola, Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa

 Statement: His Excellency Tobias Lindner, Minister of State, Germany

 Statement: Ukraine

 Statement: His Excellency Georgios Gerapetritis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece

 Statement: Argentina

 Statement: Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

 Statement: His Excellency Zheenbek Kulubaev, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kyrgyzstan

 Statement: Her Excellency Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia

 Statement: His Excellency Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Qatar

 Statement: Her Excellency Laura Chinchilla, International Olympic Committee Member, Former President of the Republic of Costa Rica

 Statement: His Excellency Elnur Mammadov, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Azerbaijan

 Statement: His Excellency Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State, United Arab Emirates

 Statement: His Excellency Rodrigo Olsen, Secretary General of Foreign Policy, Chile

 Statement: His Excellency Yvan Gil Pinto, Minister of the People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (on behalf of Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations)

 Statement: Thailand

 Further statement: Pakistan